Metro 37 Recording Studios

DETROIT (June 9, 2014) – Skeleton Crew is set to enter the recording studio today in what the band calls their “Bey-lated thank you” to Beyonce for including the band in her “***FLAWLESS” video. “We thought simply sending flowers wasn’t enough,” said Scott Christy, Skeleton Crew guitarist and founding member. “So we’ve been holed up working hard on a song that might adequately thank her in addition to lending support to her feminist initiative.”

The band will be recording with Emmy-Award winning producer, Kevin Sharpe, at Detroit’s Metro 37 Recording Studios, over two days. The song, which the band remains mum as to whether it is an original or a cover, is expected to drop as a digital only, free download release sometime near the end of June, early July. A video to accompany the song is also in the works.

Since its release on Friday, December 13, 2013, The “***FLAWLESS” video has showered worldwide media attention on Skeleton Crew. The timing of her release is almost twenty years to-the-date when Skeleton Crew faced a 12-year-old Beyonce and her then group, Girls Tyme on the American Idol of its time TV show: Star Search. Skeleton Crew defeated Girls Tyme, but went on to lose in the semi-finals. The Girls Tyme Star Search loss became “a defining moment of [her] childhood,” according to Beyonce.

“I can only hope that more people get exposed to our music as a result,” said William Pilipchuk, lead singer and cofounder of Skeleton Crew. “I’ve always said that Skeleton Crew will forever remain a ‘footnote’ in the career of Beyonce. Now, in light of all the newfound attention Beyonce inadvertently bestowed upon the band, it appears that ‘footprint’ may just get a little bigger.”

Attn Metro 37 Clients and bands.... If you are a client in good standing at Metro 37 you are Pre-Selected for the Local stages at Dirtfest.... You do not have to submit to play!!!!... Just text me (586 549 2879) for the Details and I will secure you Slot on DIRTFEST.

On Saturday, Metro 37 Studios will debut a series of monthly concerts featuring local bands at Diesel Concert Lounge in Chesterfield Township, where he himself and his professional staff of sound engineers blast out the quality sound. "This is a job that requires someone that loves local music," Sharpe says. "Our goal is to give (the bands) better treatment than they've ever had."Sharpe will also be providing a live recording of Saturday's concert. "I bring in a 24-track recorder and I get all the individual tracks and the audience response," he says. The recordings will be given to the bands to use as they see fit, and Sharpe will feature the recordings on his Website pages.He's also working to develop local bands. "I was a musician up till the time I was about 35," he says. "If I can just help people not make the same mistakes that I've made, they'd be much farther along. Sometimes I help with booking and also about what choices to make, material and places to play."

Performing at Saturday's showcase are a handful of newer local rock bands including Blind Season, the ButterKnife Wives, Digital Love, Black Ghost Bandits and Negative Feedback.In April, Sharpe plans to open a second studio in an upper-level space inside the Diesel Concert Lounge. "It's an added value for the venue and for the bands," he says.Sharpe's next showcase, set for April 26, is a project called Kickstart Detroit. The featured band, rockers Curbstone Beauty, will earn money to be used toward a studio recording with Sharpe. The showcase is a collaborative fund-raising effort involving the bar and all of the bands on the bill. Each band will earn money, but the large chunk of the night's take will go to the featured group.

The Detroit Music Awards (DMA) are similar to the Grammy Awards presented by the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences. Award winners are determined by local musicians and music industry professionals in southeast Michigan, and presented in ten music genres; Folk/Acoustic, Blues, Jazz, Gospel, Country, Classical, Rock/Pop, R&B/Hip-Hop, Electronic and World. The DMA is the only local music awards in the nation to be presented by a not-for -profit organization. Voting is accomplished entirely via the internet.

Previous DMA events have featured electrifying performances and guest appearances by some of Detroit's most glittering music legends: Was (Not Was), Eminem with D12, The Clark Sisters, Kid Rock, Martha Reeves, Smokey Robinson, Bob Seger, Glen Frey, The Miracles, Grand Funk Railroad, George Clinton and Parliament, and Ted Nugent, among many others. The annual award show also spotlights outstanding emerging local musicians.

"I am honored to have been nominated for Outstanding Record Producer as well as Metro 37 Studios being nominated for the Detroit Music Awards. If you are in the Detroit music scene and a DMA member, I’d appreciate your vote. Thanks so much!"